Biologists created this virus in labs, but they didn't think the human immune system would be strong enough to quickly adapt to the virus and make it basically useless within only a couple of weeks.

The first few people who caught this "virus" died but after that, the spread and severity of the flue was reduced mainly due to the spread from human to human weakened the virus from host to host until it ended up being like any regular flu..

2) The government and media made it all up, there was no real swine flu, it was a regular flu which mutated slightly and they made it out to be some massive potential pandemic..

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It reminds me of when the tsunami smashed Indonesia, now every time there is an earthquake we are feared with tsunami warnings all over the coast.. But nothing ever happens...

Or how about: When the Democrats swept to power in 2008, the new overwhelmingly Democratic Congress started making inquiries into potential crimes committed by the Bush Administration. OBama himself mentioned that former Bush officials could be held accountable and possibly indicted for crimes committed during the Bush/Cheney regime. It was about that time that word came about of a new type of influenza appearing in isolated areas around the world, and considerable concern was given to the potential virulent nature and morbidity of this strain. Parallels were drawn to the Spanish influenza outbreak of 1917-18 in the press. Any mention of possible inquiries or criminal indictments of Bush officials were quickly dropped..... Do you not think that this was, in effect, a covert warning by Bush operatives to Congress....., that they shouldn't dare proceed with any inquiries or indictments of Bush administration officials - unless a terrible pandemic be placed on the U.S. and the world??? I know what this means... It is a terrible truth..., but a truth of which we should all be aware. And this is probably not the only time that such tactics have been employed by the far right... I am particularly suspicious of the AIDS epidemic, which came about in the early days of the Reagan administration. Here was a disease that targeted principally homosexuals and promiscuous heterosexuals - a disease that was tailor-made, in effect, for the views and dogmas held by the Religious Right, or the Christian Evangelicals, who were Reagan's core constituency... I will no longer hold any illusions about the government in this country, and neither should you, for the people who aspire to positions of supreme authority are prone to abuse that power, and sometimes in very insidious ways. We are still witnessing it today....

Whoa..... You are really quick to the draw..Mr. Angel. This forum really appears to be a grand obsession with you... You fancy yourself an accomplished editorialist. That's too bad, because you aren't, quite frankly, going to be appearing in the pages of "The New Republic," or "National Review" anytime soon - sorry, it just isn't going to happen....But then let's face it, none of us here are really up to the same standards as Michael Kinsley or William F. Buckly. We're just wannabes with a public forum, that's all. But we do have one advantage over the legitimate press - we can say pretty much what we want to say..., they, quite frankly, can't. Do you know why??? Because in doing so, they would be jeopardizing their very lives, and quite probably the lives of their friends and families. That is the quasi-fascist nature of the government in this country. If you are a recognized, legitimate journalist in this country, there are certain things you had dare not touch on, unless some terrible tragedy befalls you. During the years of the Bush administration, the press became a mere vestige to an out-of-control fascist/ imperialist state, and the truth became a total orphan. at least until the internet gave us some respite from total censorship and repression. Now, as to the relationship between pending congressional inquiries/indictments of Bush officials and the appearance of Swine Flu in the world .... Oh, the hell with it for right now. I'm on eastern time and it's getting late. I'll have to continue this thread tomorrow....

I guess I had assumed that the H1N1 was probably man-made, and perhaps didn't deliver the kind of death and destruction it's makers had hoped for.

I believe it might have been used as a diversion... but what I believe it was supposed to divert us from was possibly how Obama isn't following through on his promises, and the massive amounts of money he's throwing about with little regulation.

Also, like BlueAngel said, I think it's to instill fear, and possibly also to use that fear to alienate us from other countries. Possibly this is to make us more "patriotic" (in their sense of the word) so that our government can continue to rape and pillage while we decidedly look away and let it happen.

912, I think you might be on to something, though... with our government using diseases to target specific groups for their own purposes. However, I believe that the left and right are just to sides of the same coin... I think they probably bow down to the same masters. Anyway, I want to look more into that. Especially, like you said, with the AIDS epidemic... I haven't read anything about it in a while... are they still saying it started with the monkey?

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I dunno if all flu's are government sponsored. The H1N1 seems to almost have come at an ideal time, though, if you think about the frenzy it caused. Most people were in complete hysteria over it, while our financial system experienced a total meltdown... I would be so not surprised if in this instance this strain was fabricated.

H1N1 isn't new. It's been floating around since at least the 70's. Most people have no knowledge of H1N1, so it being called "H1N1"(when its the same swine flu from over 3 decades ago) is simply just a tactic used to scare people to give money to pharmaceutical corporations to some how "help balance" the recession.

Don't you know giving all your money to the corporations that caused the economic crisis by having all of your money in the first place is the only way to fix it?

::Sigh::

People are sheep.

It's sort of like calling a pencil a "Lead graphite composting tool."

That is what it is, but people wouldn't understand it meant "pencil." This causes panic, as when things are outside your realm of comprehension it breeds fear.

Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again, H1N1 is LESS lethal than the common cold. Let alone the regular flu. People with H1N1 that die almost ALWAYS have a prior health risk of greater potential lethality. Once again, usually pneumonia. It's not H1N1 that kills people, it's the fact that they are already extremely ill. The only time it has ever killed anybody without prior health conditions, is when it goes untreated is poor countries. I think they have the official count set at 10. Everyone else has always had other complications.

The problem I have with the Swine Flu epidemic is that it appeared suddenly out of nowhere. The Center for Disease control in Atlanta usually has warning well in advance of a major influenza outbreak, and alerts the public accordingly. The likelihood of this outbreak being used as some sort of political tool seems quite high, but you will have to draw your own conclusions - I have already stated mine.....

It is hard not to have been bombarded by information in the past year regarding swine flu, or Influenza A H1N1, as it is known in the medical community. The inundation of news about swine flu has resulted in many people becoming annoyed or sceptical about the impact of this new strain of flu. While scientists have been awaiting a pandemic from avian flu, swine flu has taken over the front lines of the media.

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